| NOUN | animal | genus Mononychus | authorities disagree over whether to classify the genus as bird or dinosaur |
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| Meaning | authorities disagree over whether to classify the genus as bird or dinosaur. | |
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| Member of | Maniraptora, suborder Maniraptora | Advanced theropods including oviraptorids and dromaeosaurs and possibly even modern birds |
| Members | Mononychus olecranus | A turkey-sized long-legged fossil 75 million years old found in the Gobi Desert having bird-like fused wrist bones and keeled breastbone and a long tail resembling a dinosaur's |
| Broader | reptile genus | A genus of reptiles |
| Spanish | genus mononychus | |
| Catalan | genus mononychus | |
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